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Toyota sales up 40% Year-Over-Year on consumer incentives

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Toyota sales up 40% Year-Over-Year on consumer incentives

Car Czar Consulting says: Consumers are now conditioned to wait for strong incentives to buy or lease. Toyota sales surge 41% fueled by incentives Freep, April 1, 2010, FToyota learned that incentives work as the automaker reported a 41% increase in its U.S. sales in March reversing year-over-year declines in January and February in the wake of highly-publicized recalls. Even its Prius hybrid, which was the subject of two recent incidents of alleged unintended acceleration, experienced a 27% jump...

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Applemania Part Deux: 600,000-700,000 iPads Sold On Launch Day

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Applemania Part Deux: 600,000-700,000 iPads Sold On Launch Day

The Car Czar Says: What are you waiting for? Run out and get yours’ now! 600,000-700,000 iPads Sold On Launch Day April 4, 2010, HuffingtonPost, In a report to clients issued Saturday night, Munster’s estimated that by midnight Sunday, Apple will have sold 600,000 to 700,000 iPads, including pre-orders — more than double his relatively conservative pre-launch estimate of 200,000 to 300,000. (Other analysts had published estimates of 300,000 to 400,000.) By comparison, Apple reportedly took 74 days to...

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Obama: Positive jobs report; More work remains

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Obama: Positive jobs report; More work remains

Czar Consulting says: Temporary Census jobs and other Government jobs made up the bulk of the increase. “…Yet, the positive news reported by the government was tempered by some sobering statistics. For instance, many of the 162,000 new jobs went to temporary Census workers. And more than 40 percent of those without jobs have been unemployed for more than six months. Since the recession began in December 2007, some 8.4 million have lost their jobs…That’s a staggering sum, Obama...

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New Media Works: ways to increase your chance of getting major media to care about your idea

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New Media Works: ways to increase your chance of getting major media to care about your idea

Car Czar Consulting says: Getting people to care about your idea takes effort. 8 things that helped me increase our chances of getting major media to care that I think can help you too Unreasonable Institute, March 29, 2010, When I was recently asked what I did to get bloggers of some major publications to write about the Unreasonable Institute I said what any good entrepreneur would say, “I don’t know…I just did it.” After some reflection, I realized...

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Chinese car maker Geely gains toe-hold in US, elsewhere, in purchase of Ford Volvo unit

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Chinese car maker Geely gains toe-hold in US, elsewhere, in purchase of Ford Volvo unit

Car  Czar Consulting say: Now this ought to be interesting. Virtually unlimited Chinese investment money against a toe-hold in the US and globally provides Geely with distribution and brand awareness. These folks are serious marketers of vehicles for the masses. See the video below. Geely Buys Ford‘s Volvo car unit March 28, 2010,  (Reuters) – Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, China’s largest private-run car maker, agreed on Sunday to buy Ford Motor’s (F.N) Volvo car unit, the country’s biggest overseas...

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Sales of Electric Vehicles evidences in the US

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Car Czar Consulting says: Selling into “shortages,”  real or imagined, has been a winning tactic that tends to cause a stir and resulting judgment based on “who benefits.” That said, how are we to determined the efficacy of such prognostication until sales of Electric Vehicles evidences in the US? This strikes us a little bit of “chicken or egg” or, perhaps. Chicken Little crying “…the sky is falling!…” Spread the Word: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where...

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